New YorkSoldiers--England--Wessex1800 - 1837LondonMacmillanEngland1950St. Martin's PressGreat Britain.HardyThomasThomas Hardy184019282016-05-12Hardy distrusted the application of nineteenth-century empiricism to history because he felt it marginalized important human elements. In The Trumpet Major, the tale of a woman courted by three competing suitors during the Napoleonic wars, he explores the subversive effects of ordinary human Hardy distrusted the application of nineteenth-century empiricism to history because he felt it marginalized important human elements.Fiction195010004001000400enThe trumpet-major; John Loveday, a soldier in the war with Buonaparte and Robert his brother, first mate in the merchant service, a tale.Napoleonic Wars, 1800-1815Brothers--England--WessexenkTrumpet-major.Online version:Wessex (England)